Gathered around the Memory installation of "Cavafy's
World: Ancient Passions" are (from left): Dimitris Katsarelias
of the Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA), Eleftherios Anghelopoulos
of the Greek Embassy, exhibition cocurators Lauren Talalay of
the Kelsey Museum and Artemis Leontis of Modern Greek Studies
at U-M, Alexandra Charitatou of the Greek Literary and Historical
Archives in Athens, Vassilis Lambropoulos of Modern Greek Studies
at U-M; and John Chioles of New York University.

Staff Update

Field Librarian Beau David Case has joined the U-M faculty
as the Field Librarian for Classical Studies. In addition to collection
development responsibilities for the archaeology, history, and
literature of the Greek, Roman, and Byzantine periods at the Harlan
Hatcher Graduate Library, he will also have oversight of the Kelsey
Museum's library. Beau holds an undergraduate degree in English,
with Italian and Classics minors, from UCLA, and graduate degrees
in Comparative Literature, with Greek and Latin minors, and in
Library and Information Science from Indiana University. He has
sixteen years' experience working in academic libraries and museums,
and for the past nine years he has been the Classics librarian
at Indiana University (1993-95) and Ohio State University (1996-2001).
Among his priorities is to build the Kelsey's library by means
of fundraising for an acquisitions endowment and by developing
a book exchange program with archaeology museums and institutes
internationally, all in order to better support the Kelsey's exhibition
and outreach programs, its curators, and the IPCAA students.

Curator of Hellenistic and Roman Collections Elaine Gazda
has finished her edited volume The Ancient Art of Emulation:
Studies in Artistic Originality and Tradition from the Present
to Classical Antiquity (University of Michigan Press). In
September she participated in a group discussion at Barnard College
on the state of the field of Roman art history. In March she attended
a conference at Columbia University called "The Art of Rome:
Shifting Boundaries: Evolving Interpretations." She continues,
as head of the Trustees' Publications Committee for the American
Academy in Rome, to work on developing the Academy's publications
series.

Curator of Dynastic Egypt Janet Richards delivered one
public lecture at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. Another
for the U-M Institute for the Humanities "Philology!"
series was entitled "Deciphering the Dead: Individual, Text
and Context in Ancient Egypt." She will give the inaugural
lecture for the newly formed Western Michigan Chapter of the Archaeological
Institute of America in May. Also in May she will lead a tour
of the Kelsey and make a presentation entitled "Exhibiting
the Ancients" for the Humanities Institute's Spring Seminar
(The Ancients: Familiar Strangers). Otherwise she is deeply involved
in planning and research for her exhibition "Individual and
Society in Ancient Egypt," which opens in winter 2003, and
with analyzing data from her Abydos Middle Cemetery project.

With Mark B. Garrison (IPCAA Ph.D. 1988), Curator of Greece
and the Near East Margaret Cool Root recently published
Seals on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets. Volume I: Images
of Heroic Encounter (Oriental Institute Publications 117,
2001). This work reflects a long-term sponsored research project
on the seals ratifying thousands of dated administrative documents
of the Achaemenid Persian empire. The project has been supported
by the Kelsey Museum as well as by the John Simon Guggenhiem Memorial
Foundation, the Kress Foundation, the National Endowment for the
Humanities, the Rackham Graduate School and Office of the Vice
President for Research at the University of Michigan, and the
Iran Heritage Foundation.

Curator of Academic Outreach Lauren Talalay cocurated
(with Adjunct Associate Professor of Modern Greek Studies Artemis
Leontis) the exhibition "Cavafy's World" and, along
with Artemis Leontis and Keith Taylor, edited the accompanying
book, " . . . what these Ithakas mean": Readings
in Cavafy (Athens, Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive).
She also delivered two papers at international conferences: "Commodifying
the Past: Archaeological Images in Modern Advertising" at
the European Association of Archaeologists annual meeting in Germany
and "Prehistory and the Southern Euboea Archaeological Project"
(coauthored with Donald Keller, Tracey Cullen, and Evangelia Karimali)
at the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Celebration of the Canadian Archaeological
Institute at Athens in Greece.

Curator of Postclassical Collections Thelma Thomas curated
the exhibition of the Kelsey's collection of Karanis textiles
in the fall. The show's catalogue has been well received, and
a published version of a paper on the textiles, given in October
at the Abbegg-Stiftung in Riggisberg, Switzerland, will appear
in the next issue of the Riggisberger Berichte. Melanie
Grunow (recent IPCAA Ph.D.) is constructing a web page recording
the exhibition, which should be on line in early summer. Thelma
continues a project dedicated to recataloguing the Karanis textiles
and getting that information into the Kelsey's on-line database.

Curator of Graeco-Roman Egypt Terry Wilfong's publication
of mummy labels in the Kelsey Museum collection has appeared in
a volume of essays in honor of papyrologist David Thomas. He has
also published an article, "Friendship and Physical Desire:
The Discourse of Female Homoeroticism in Fifth-Century CE Egypt,"
in Among Women, edited by Nancy Rabinowitz and published
by University of Texas Press. He is working on various Kelsey
contributions (brochure and computer kiosk presentation) for the
theme semester "Gender, Representation and Power" and
has been involved in ongoing work on a collaborative project to
prepare on-line teaching materials for ancient Egyptian funded
by the Mellon Foundation. He has just finished his book, Women
of Jeme, which will be published by University of Michigan
Press in the fall.